District summary: Campaign 7 (Whitman Demonstration District) shows strong engagement (402/430 completed, 93.5%) and overall mastery 73.1% (430 students scope). Strengths: MCQ items average mastery 72.2% and two schools (West Ranch: 98.6% completion, 78.2% mastery; Valencia: 92.9% completion, 73.2% mastery) show capacity to deliver grade-level RI content. Emerging risks: three systemic blind spots in RI standards—vocabulary (canon 3: "meticulous"), denotation vs. connotation (canon 4), and confusion among topic/central idea/theme (canon 6)—each flagged in 100.0% of classes/schools and affecting large student counts (canon 3: 100.0% — 3 schools, 11 classes, 298 students; canon 4: 100.0% — 3 schools, 11 classes, 134 students; canon 6: 100.0% — 3 schools, 11 classes, 95 students). Localized concern: Open Road Academy has a single-school hotspot on air vs. water pollution (canon 7) affecting 69 students across 8 classes (20.4% prevalence at that school). Specific item risk: short-answer items underperform (short_answer avg mastery 47.0; question 1 "meticulous" district mastery 51.2%). Equity/variance: Grass and Sky Prep trails peers (mastery 55.4%, completion 86.4%) and accounts for the lowest school-level performance on multiple items (e.g., Q1 42.1%, Q3 52.6%, Q4 57.9%). Implication for instruction: prioritize explicit vocabulary and text-evidence routines across Grade 9–10 ELA classrooms, add targeted short-answer practice and rubrics, and run a focused walkthrough/PLC cycle at Grass and Sky Prep within the next PLC cycle. District next moves (summary): 1) Run a 45–60 minute PLC in Week 1 to teach explicit context-based vocabulary routines (target: raise Q1 mastery from 51.2% → +10 percentage points district-wide within next benchmark window). 2) Provide a two-week, coach-led micro-PD on denotation/connotation and topic vs. central idea mapping for Grade 9–10 ELA teachers with exemplar lesson frames and rubrics. 3) Direct site leaders at Grass and Sky Prep to run two instructional rounds (Week 1–2) focused on short-answer modeling and evidence selection (target: increase Canyon mastery by 8–10 percentage points on targeted items within next benchmark window). Evidence sources: canonical misconception bundles (canon_ids 3,4,6,2) and question-level performance (Q1–Q4), plus localized hotspot (canon 7 at Open Road Academy, school_id 15683).